From:	Old Man Bethyaga acuteparanoia@*******.com
Subject:	Church in SR
Date:	Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:32:54 CDT

>>From "Phil Smith" <phil_urbanhell@*******.com>:
>>..Actually, thinking about it, I'm pretty sure that Westphilia is a
>>Protestant state, which means that it can take its own angle on things..

>From Beren
>Sorry, it's got a Cardinal and an Archbishop. No Protestants. But the
>German-Catholic Church often liked doing things pretty independently in
> >the
>past, like being chosen by the German Emperor, so they're probably >doing
>things
>their way again.

Actually, you don't have to be Catholic to be a Bishop. I'm no expert, but
don't the Anglican's have most of the original Roman Catholic titles still
in use? When England broke with Rome, basically, they retained all the
trappings, procedures, structure, etc of Roman Catholicism with the one
exception that England's monarch now became the head of the Church rather
than the Pope. Probably the same kind of thing with Westphalia.

And I don't know anything about Westphalia except what I have read here, but
from the information provided, and from what I know about Catholicism in SR,
I would guess that the Westphalians were originally Catholic. For that
matter, they may still consider themselves to be true Roman Catholics even
if Rome no longer recognizes them. Either they were Catholics who broke with
Rome over ideological differences, or Rome broke with them because of their
"aberrant" behavior.

My .02


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